President Obama’s health care summit had no beer and produced no results…except, that is, for a picture of his newest “death stare”. Presumably, he was giving this look to Congressman Paul Ryan after Ryan savaged the president’s health care plan with CBO stats, town hall rage and polling data. So I present to you the President Obama “death stare” Caption This contest/open thread.
(H/T to Red State for the pic)
Don Bates, Jr. has completed his signature drive and plans to file soon. Rumor has it the Marlin Stutzman and John Hostettler campaigns aren’t far behind. And the bad blood between, mostly, Stutzman supporters and those collecting signatures for former Senator Dan Coats continues to burn white hot.
In the 4th CD the list of Republicans interested in replacing Steve Buyer continues to grow. According to Indiana Legislative Insight some of those names include:
- Former Purdue president Martin Jischke
- Rep. Tim Brown of Crawfordsville
- Hendricks County Commissioner Eric Wathen
- (As Abdul noted) Sen. Mike Young of Indianapolis, who also sought the seat, though unsuccessfully, in the post-redistricting primary in 2002
- Sen. Ron Alting of Lafayette
- Dave Heath the former Lafayette mayor
Currently, Secretary of State Todd Rokita and State Senator Brandt Hershman are the leading contenders, though Rokita, as of this writing, is the only one of the two who has filed.
In the 5th CD, backroom deals have been attempted to “thin the field”. According to Howey:
“Dr. John McGoff told HPI on Friday (Feb. 5th) that he had been offered an Indianapolis City-County Council seat to get out of the race. McGoff said he is committed to staying in the 5th CD race.”
This was done after fellow 5th CD challenger Luke Messer was quoted as saying “”The other guys have to look in the mirror and reach their own decisions. But we have to reach out. There’s no backroom way to get this done.” (emphasis mine)
In the 9th CD, Congressman Mike Pence will be endorsing Mike Sodrel this coming Saturday morning at the Clark County GOP headquarters. This comes after fellow 9th CD challenger Todd Young has racked up plenty of endorsements of his own from most of the statewide elected officials. Travis Hankins is also still making a run of it in the 9th.
Contentious primaries, all! And apparently, there could be more news today! So feel free to discuss your particular race of choice. Just keep things civil.
Consider this your Friday morning open thread.
(Cue the liberals whining and crying who can’t take a joke in 5…4…3…2………)
Oh and just for fun, when was the last time you saw Massachusetts this red? Out of 10 congressional districts, all held by Democrats, nine went red. Even Barney Frank’s seat!
Consider this a mid-week post special election open thread. We’ll get back to more Hoosier centric posts soon.
(Title ruthlessly stolen with great amounts of CO2 and other harmful elements to mother earth being used, from Ace of Spades.)
HUGE Tip O’the Hat to Red State and Ace. Consider this your eco-friendly open thread.
If you can’t understand the words over the screeching pain of mother earth, you can read them here.
We at Hoosier Access want to wish all of our readers a Happy Thanksgiving! And even though sometimes we all don’t agree with each other, we are thankful for your continued support. Have a great Thanksgiving!
This was a very interesting post by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz that he got from Jason Hammer from Sports Sunday on News talk 1430 WXNT. It is about Rush talking about becoming a Minority owner with the St. Louis Rams.
Here is my quick take on this…Why on earth does anyone care if Rush becomes a NFL Owner? Would the Left scream if Nancy Pelosi bought an NFL Team? (I might add the left are the ones screaming about this). And then you have Jim Irsay (of all people) who are against this as well. Let me just say this….Who cares and why? Read for yourselves what Jason Hammer had to say about this….he makes valid points.
Oh and for those of you on the left who want to scream at me….Remember this….I could care less if anyone from the left bought an NFL Team.
Read Jason’s post after the leap and consider this an Open Thread Wednesday!
I know it’s a week late, but hey at least your taxes aren’t. But if they were, that would certainly qualify you as an Obama cabinet nominee. Consider this your midweek open thread.
Here is a little Beck singing about how I think we all feel about April 15th. Consider this your tax day open thread.
Please pardon the belated greetings this St. Patty’s day, but have a great one today!
Consider this the blarney stone of open threads.
